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>SuSE 7.1 installation CD not recognized</H3>
<p><strong>From Tom Zabosky
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Good day
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<P><STRONG>
I came across the undermentioned question to yourselves and it is the
identical problem I have been having.
Could you please send me the answer given to this question.
Thanking you in advance for your kind consideration in this matter.
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yours
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Tom Zabosky
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<A HREF="http://www.suse.com/">SuSE</A> 7.1 installation CD not recognized
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<P><STRONG><CODE>
ram son - Tue, 3 Apr 2001 09:52:50 -0700 (PDT)
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My knowledge of Linux systems isn't very extensive but
I have been checking out different systems by
downloading ISO's from ftp sites.Because SuSE 7.1
live-evaluation is only an image and uninstallable, I
downloaded from a mirror the folders and files I
thought might be needed by duplicating the layout from
version 7.0 --which seems to be the same as the ftp
layout. Unfortunately I ended up with an unbootable
CD...So I made a boot floppy and get started only to
get a message saying " unable to find SuSE 7.1
Installation CD 1..." It then switches to manual
installation and I am able to install using
yast1...But I actually wanted to check all the new
stuff included in Yast2 and the partitioning
improvements -- aside from the curiosity factor to
find out what actaually went wrong. If I use the cd
from 7.0 the boot floppy works fine and I get yast2. I
also compared the layout and files in the two versions
and was not able to solve the problem. I searched many
sites and all I get are bits and pieces that did not
help me much.
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The questions are: What is missing from my cd that it
is not recognized as the installation cd? What is it
that linuxrc looks for to get Yast2 started? and more
importantly where in the tree is it supposed to be?
I would greatly appreciate any help you can offer me
..preferably with a direct answer or at least point me
to where the answer could "actually" be found and save
me the link-chasing.
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> [Dan]
I'd suggest you ask SuSE this question.
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> [K.-H.]
I agree with Dan on this -- SuSE would be the place to ask.
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If you didn't fetch a boot disk as well and burned the CD explicitly as
bootable CD with that disk-image of course it can't be bootable.
See cdrecord man pages and README's for details or move to a search engine of
your choice and type "burn bootable CDR" or something similar.
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The partitioning improvements of yast2/7.1 are that you still cant choose
any more complicated layout than a continous part of a HD. (seems to have
improved with 7.3).
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SuSE/yast requires a list of packages and lots of information for
administration of the system. probably you forgot that.
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You've <EM>no</EM> problem with filesystem type/extensions on the CD? like all caps
filenames instead of lower case ones?
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I guess SuSE put something there so it's not that easy to just bake your
Installation CD yourself where lots of needed stuff might be needed. Aren't
there CD images which would even be bootable?
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> [JimD]
Actually it's probably a replay of the old question:
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I downloaded a .ISO image and it doesn't work after I
burn it to a CD
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(i.e. the user/querent is using CD burning software that is
not recognizing the target file as a pre-mastered ISO image).
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The best answer to this question seems to at the LinuxISO web
page:
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<A HREF="http://www.linuxiso.org/cdburninginfo.html"
>http://www.linuxiso.org/cdburninginfo.html</A>
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... where one can also find ISO images of over twenty Linux
distributions, as well as <A HREF="http://www.freebsd.org/">FreeBSD</A>, <A HREF="http://www.netbsd.org/">NetBSD</A>, and <A HREF="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</A> (which
I usually call *BSD or {Free,Net,Open}BSD for brevity's sake).
</blockQuote>
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What I particularly like about this page is that they used to have
a Javascript animation that showed a sequence of dialogs and
options in "Easy CD Creator" that selected the appopriate "Options,
Track Type" settings for burning pre-mastered ISO images.
(Even though that seems to have disappeared, the information is
still there; MS Windows users just have to READ it and find the
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